Help Dana Beat Lyme Disease ❤️

Hi, my name is Dana Papadopoulos, and I am fundraising for my Lyme Disease treatment.

Thank you for being here. Someway, somehow, you have made your way to this page and hopefully watched my video. If you haven’t, I invite you to please watch it, and share it with everyone you know.

I would love to share my story with you in hopes of receiving your help, and spreading some light and compassion on this debilitating and gut-wrenching disease.

If you know anything about Lyme, you know that it is an ensnaring disease that comes with many co-infections and co-morbidities. If you do not know anything about Lyme, let me share my journey with you…

I have been battling for a long time, arguably my whole life, but the start of my conscious journey with it began at 18 years old when I started experiencing persistent and physically, unrelenting symptoms that would not go away on their own.

For me personally, I started having severe digestive issues. Being 18 years old, I was told I was just anxious, depressed, and had IBS. But I knew something was actually wrong. After months and months of going from doctor to doctor, trying to get someone to believe me, I finally got diagnosed with Gastroparesis at the world-renowned, Cleveland Clinic.

In my innocence, I thought that was my answer for everything, and I could be cured, and get back to life as usual pretty quickly. Little did I know that I would get diagnosed with one thing after another until 12+ years later I had a list over 27 diagnoses long.

I will share just a fraction of it below in hopes that the reality of all this can sink in:

Gastroparesis

Colonic Inertia

Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome

Fibromyalgia

Ehlers Danlos Syndrome

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Restless Leg Syndrome

Chronic EBV (Epstein-Barr Virus)

Carpal Tunnel

Situational Depression and Anxiety

Pancytopenia

Thrombocytopenia

Chronic Lyme Disease

Hashimoto’s Disease

Cytomegalovirus

Amenorrhea

Chronic Insomnia

Mast Cell Activation Syndrome/Disease

Chronic Vertigo

Gastritis

Chronic Ovarian Cyst Ruptures/PCOS

Chronic Iron Anemia

Toxic Mold Exposure/Mold Illness

Leaky Gut

Gut Dysbiosis

SIBO/SIFO

Fibroadenomas

Chronic Lyme Disease

And more…

Keep in mind, this is just a list of the diagnoses and does not include the debilitating symptoms that come with each one.

I was stuck in Western medicine for over 8 years until I sought out more holistic treatment, and was finally diagnosed correctly with Chronic Lyme Disease in 2018. Again, in my innocence, I thought I had found the answer, would be able to eradicate it pretty quickly, and get back to life as normal fairly soon. Little did I know that I was about to be in the fight of my life. The first 8 years of my journey I was fighting to survive. Now, since my Chronic Lyme diagnosis, I have been fighting to heal.

I had no idea what it would entail trying to get Chronic Lyme Disease, and all co-infections and co-morbidities out of my body for good. I had no idea the strength, and mental fortitude it would take. As well as all the sacrifices it would take… financially, emotionally, relationally, physically, and spiritually. I had no idea what I was up against.

Now I know, and I need your help.

I am asking for $150,000 to help me get the Lyme disease treatment I so desperately need, as well as cover the cost of my medical bills, treatment expenses, much needed surgeries, hospital debt, and a downpayment for a van, so I can live more sustainably for the next few years and heal.

This has been a 12+ year journey for me. I could write books on all the stories, symptoms, diagnoses, near death experiences, miracles, and more that I have personally experienced. I have evaded death more times than I can count, and also been in more emergency rooms, doctors offices, and been tested, poked, and prodded more times than I can count as well.

Unless you have been through these things personally, it is near impossible to grasp the devastation these illnesses lays waste to on your life. I always tell friends, I know nothing else on the planet that comes for every aspect of your life, bleeding you dry from the inside out. If you live in this world, you know it is so dark and so hard. Thousands of people are dying slow, physically, emotionally, and psychologically painful deaths. But I am personally hell-bent on not only becoming a success story, but being a beacon of light in such a dark situation.

I have hope, and I have a plan, but in order to be successful and beat this, I need your help.

I have fought my whole life, and honestly fought well, but I cannot do it alone anymore. Only once in my entire journey have I asked for financial help, and it was in reluctance a few years ago through the persuasion of a good friend who set it up for me when I desperately needed it for survival.

This time, I am asking for me, as me, and as scary as it is, I can confidently say, I cannot do this alone anymore, and I need your help to finish this race, and finish it well.

After 12+ years of searching for answers, as well as the right treatment plan, I have finally found a path that is working for me. I have also come to find that in order to heal and treat anything at the root, almost nothing is covered by medical insurance, and you have to pay out of pocket for absolutely everything.

So this is the solution I have come up with that will provide me with the best possible chance I have at healing, while simultaneously ending the vicious cycle of worrying about being without a home I can heal in, and being able to pay for the treatment I so desperately need.

Lord willing, I have about 3-5 years left on this journey, and these financial resources will provide me with the life saving help I need to heal.

Being as vulnerable and candid as possible, all my savings and finances run out in less than 30 days. After that, I will not be able to pay for my rent, groceries, the treatment I need, and everything else that is keeping me borderline functional at the moment.

So I am asking for your help. I have no plan B, and am truly living this out in faith.

This disease is difficult, not only to live with, but to heal. It is also a world and a disease I would not wish on anyone. I hope and pray that my words and my courage to share my story can somehow shed some light on this extremely debilitating and deadly disease that deserves to be taken seriously. The people dealing with it need all the help they can get - financially, emotionally, physically, relationally, and more.

As I mentioned above, my goal is to be a success story and a light, but I cannot make that happen without your help. I do not want to succumb to this disease and firmly believe I won’t, but I need your help in order to do so.

I need your help to save my life. Then maybe one day my story will be able to save many others.

To those that donate, thank you from the bottom of my heart! You have no idea how much it means to me, and the impact it is making. You are truly saving my life, and there is absolutely no exaggeration in that statement whatsoever. This is the longest I have gone without being in a hospital bed or an emergency room, and I would like to keep it that way.

If you cannot donate, please share this with your friends and family. You never know who may be able to help.

If you cannot do either, I hope reading this has sparked a soft spot of compassion for those in this world still undergoing the throes of it. It is the darkest thing I have come to find, and I can only hope one day it will be completely eradicated.

I wish I could sit across from all of you one by one as we share our hearts and our stories, and become friends. Maybe one day I’ll get to. But until then, I just want to say thank you for anything and everything you can do to help me get the financial resources I need in order to heal. I am incredibly grateful. You are truly saving my life. Thank you!

Love,

Dana